Thread of some really great works out this week in the world of countering naive genetic thinking (e.g. hereditarianism, genetic determinism, scientific racism)
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First, @jedidiahcarlson.com @jbenning.bsky.social Ruth Shaw, and @arbelharpak.bsky.social provide a thorough critique of Gregory Clark's work attempting to show that social status and economic outcomes in the UK are largely determined by genetics and do not change across several hundred years
Next, @docedge.bsky.social & Josh Schraiber formalize the Lewontinian critiques of using heritability within a group to infer the causes of phenotypic differences between groups. They then extend this to methods in evolutionary and statistical genetics ( e.g. Pst and global/local admixture analyses)
A fantastic cohort of folks at Stanford (incl @daphmarts.bsky.social, @raungar.bsky.social ) released a curriculum for ethical/social implications training in genetics, especially human genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.03.565577v1
Finally, the great Bill Tucker, whose work has done the most to unmask white supremacist political & financial connections among race scientists, had his final book published posthumously. It provides an expansive critique of the Bell Curve's predictions about politics, meritocracy, & inequality
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